Trump Shows N. Korea Who’s Boss With BOLD Reason For Canceling Summit
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Gone are the days when the United States makes “desperate deals,” like the one Obama made with Iran.
President Trump is showing North Korea and the world that he’s in charge and he’d rather walk away than make a bad deal.
That’s exactly what happened when President Trump announced that he’s canceling the North Korea summit, due to Kim Jong-un’s “open hostility.”
President Trump backed out of a planned June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday, citing recent public remarks from the authoritarian nation’s leaders.
In an open letter to Kim, Trump cited “the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement.”
After explosive first-year exchanges, Trump in March accepted an invitation from Kim to meet from Kim, after the communication was conveyed by South Korean officials. Both governments took public steps to ease tensions.
Ahead of the meeting, North Korea released three detained Americans following two visits by Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director recently confirmed as secretary of state.
North Korea said ahead of the meeting that it would close its nuclear weapons test cite, though some experts suspected that this was because the site no longer was viable.
The planned summit resulted in a marked shift in Trump’s public description of Kim, dropping last year’s insulting nickname “Little Rocket Man” in favor of calling him “respected.”
But as the summit neared, North Korean officials suggested the meeting was in question.
Choe Son Hui, a vice minister in the North Korean Foreign Ministry, issued an aggressive statement via state media on Thursday, lashing out at Vice President Mike Pence’s suggestion that North Korea give up its nuclear program like Libya did during the George W. Bush administration.
“Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of the United States,” Choe said.
In his open letter, Trump said to Kim, “If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write.”
https://www.scribd.com/document/380059638/Trump-s-letter-to-Kim-Jong-Un